Carpenter Bee_Relook

[JamesO]

Greetings,

I posted this picture a few months back and thought I'd revisit it and make some adjustments. I adjusted the saturation and used the patch tool a little as well, and came up with:





Camera: Kodak Easyshare Z1012 IS Digital Camera
Where: Buckley WA
Focal Length: 70.2 mm
35mm Equivalent: 396mm
Exposure Time: .001 seconds (1/1000)
Flash: Not Used
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Exposure Bias: 0.0
Metering Mode: Matrix

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks,
James

[windrider86]

It might be helpful for folks to know what you are wanting us to critique. The processing you did? Maybe the camera settings or maybe the composition.
Asking something a bit more specifc will usually land you quite a bit more responss.

[DawnBrandon]

I like this pic but personaly I think if the bee and the flower were in color it might look better have the background black and white and the focus point in color.

[JamesO]

Thank you Windrider,

I would like critique on the post processing I did. Any specific improvements you could suggest are much appreciated (i.e. adjust curves, levels, etc.)

Thanks,
James

[hotsoup]

First... it`s not a macro. :-\
If You postprocess, than first try to crop an image, if the composition is not that good.
My version of PP...
PP_crop_8ba06d2f35f723f2740ad8dfb2c73095.jpg